Excerpt from The Historical Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: In Their Relation to the Progress and Destiny of the Pacific Coast

We hardly know which to admire most - the marvelous patience and per severance of the author, or the scholarly learning and just and discriminating judgment which is displayed. The style is one that should be followed by historians. It is clear and forcible, and the manner in which he has chronicled the events is masterly.-liverpool Albion and Telephone.

We are bound to offer our tribute to the author, for the enormous indus try indicated, and for the style in which the work is being carried through. -glasgow Herald.

His style is at once vigorous and suave descending now with Hume into the profundities of philosophic thought now soaring with Ruskin into the realms of poetic fancy, or breaking forth frequently with the unmistakable brilliancy of genius. He shows ability in depicting the beauties of nature, and in portraying character and motive. Nor does he fail in the subtleties of sarcasm; and in the use of classic allusions he shows a prudence admirably distinct from the affectation of mere sippers at the Pierian fountains. Though precise like Gibbon, he avoids his formality though massive, lie rounds his acute stateliness. America may well be proud of her western historian, who must take his place with the foremost of the age. - Sagramento Record Union.

His research, no less than his vivid and graceful style, has extorted the admiration of Mr Lecky and Mr Herbert Spencer; and the present volume bears abundant traces both of his laborious collection of materials, and of his power of using them in the construction of a narrative of fascinating inter est - London Daily _news.

The vivid narrative flows on with astonishing ease and power. There is not a dull page in the book. - The Continent.

Your method of study is absolutely the only way of accomplishing the vast undertaking which you have entered upon - one of the most remarkable in literary history. The example of wealth successfully devoted to a high intellectual object, will be a benefit to the whole country and the throwing of so much enterprise and energy into such a channel will go far to remove one of the stigmas of our American civilization.-francis Parkman.

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